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  • We may at first have thought consciousness was in the mind, or even thought it was the mind itself. That it was somehow part of our domain; our personal interface with life or our go-to source of thinking and reason.

    Exploring the mind however, we discover it is not consciousness that is personal, but the mind. We discover the mind is limited and finite and that we can go beyond it — to consciousness itself. Even as a new explorer, we are aware of something here vast and whole, an infinite peace, potent and complete. And we know — as if remembering — that this is also the intrinsic, intimate truth of ourselves.

​Welcome!

This is a blog for those who travel an inner path, seeking truth, beauty and the source of being.

Here are ideas and practices to help and encourage the traveler, and to address the obstacles that we, as students of consciousness, inevitably encounter. Everything you find here you can do at anytime and take as far as you want.
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​I invite you to use Paradigm Practice as a foundation for your practice, which you may find here, free and available for your use. Paradigm Practice is a powerful guide for bridging the gap between limitation and new awareness.

Awakening into the happiness and peace of your true nature benefits all the world.
May you be blessed on your journey!
Ann
Consciousness is the ultimate teacher:  it is always sh​owing us what we are.​​​

Every step on the inner path, however seemingly small,
is a benefit to all of life and advances the whole of consciousness.



A Zillion Things

8/27/2017

 
Ann K Gryczan

​A zillion things to do, this and every day. How do you handle that as a student of consciousness?

Sometimes having a zillion things to do is great fun, but when it is not, when a zillion things is a problem, it is a problem of form.

In the world of form, time is an object: a container that holds only so much.

We can always use form as a doorway to enlightenment. The key is to bring awareness to the form instead of resisting it.

Here’s how:

Start with examining ‟reality,” in this case a big list with a zillion things on it. And they all must be done (except when they don’t, and that is a different issue).

Look at that list or recall it. What happens? What does it feel like? Pressure? Panic? Anger?

The ego loves to have something to push against or run away from.

The ego/mind loves an outside force, it loves to have an ‟other” to struggle with and rail against because that makes it a ‟self.” This is all in its mind. The ego isn’t really a self – it is really just a very complex network of ideas. Over time, as you unravel one after another of these ideas you realize it has no basis in reality.

Struggle takes a lot of time.

All the struggling, resisting, avoiding and complaining is what takes so much time. Interacting with form in this way is like setting up a straw man and then fighting with him. This is how we enter into the ego’s dream and end up losing our lives.

Surrender.

Try this instead: instead of fighting, surrender to the pressure or angst you feel about the list. Let it get you: be crushed by the weight of all you have to do. Be afraid – that you’re trapped or not enough or powerless. Be angry, even, at whatever has put you in this position. Notice all your reactions: physical, emotional and in the senses.

Now notice what is noticing these reactions. Imagine that you can step back a little and stand with what is noticing. What is it that is noticing? It is you. Step back from emotion and be this. Be you, noticing emotion rather than being emotion.  

Are you still okay?

Are you still okay? When we are resisting something, we are identifying with the object of our resistance. We become one with the struggle and lose ourselves. If instead, we let the outside force ‟get us,” it is like calling its bluff, and since it is always bluffing, we realize the ‟other” has no real effect and cannot harm us. A door opens back to ourselves allowing awareness of something deeper within - something still and present.

Enter into life.

Now look at the list and choose a task. Just one. Come to the task as if for the first time. Come to meet it like this:

  • As if you have been given a sacred assignment.
  • As if it is the last and best thing you will ever do in your life.
  • As if it is the perfect expression of your entire life up to this moment (and it is).
  • As if it is a gift you are placing on the altar of life in the only moment you will ever have.
  • As if the whole of consciousness is awake and listening to you.

Try this with just one of the tasks you have today. And then another. Walk through the ego’s dream and back into life. Let this be the practice today. You will see – the list will change and time will change.

We can always use the content of our lives as a doorway to enlightenment – because that is what it is.


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    The ego/mind is based in the ideas of identity and duality, and committed to its survival over all else. To ensure this, the ego/mind uses any means necessary to get what it desires and avoid what it fears. Over eons, the ego/mind and the survival instinct evolved in the manner it fulfilled this purpose, developing increasingly sophisticated and complex capabilities: it learned to conceptualize, manipulate, imagine, deceive, convince, invent and so on. All of this bundled together with emotion (another evolutionary development), created what most of us now experience as our identity — as myself.”



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    Consciousness is often thought of as being located in or created by the brain; its origin purely chemical or physical, and its function that of creator, recorder and experiencer of our interface with life. Consciousness seems like our individual and distinct sense of reality, but what we are actually experiencing that seems so unique to ourselves, is the ego/mind.

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